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The advocacy group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence is calling for a boycott of WGDJ AM, the New York Post and their sponsors after columnist and radio host Fred Dicker sarcastically referred to the Dec. 14, 2012, Newtown school shootings as a “little convenient massacre” that, he said, eased the passage of the SAFE gun […] More »

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Here’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s video Christmas card to the members of the Legislative Correspondents Association, as screened at the annual reception for the press at the Governor’s Mansion on Monday evening. Showing that they can dish out jabs as well as take them, members of the press office — including Melissa DeRosa, Matt Wing and […] More »

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Dave Lombardo, who in recent years has covered the state Capitol and regional politics for The Daily Gazette of Schenectady, was fired by the paper a week after an election-night outburst at the victory celebration for Saratoga Springs mayor-elect Joanne Yepsen. According to multiple witnesses who attended the event at the Inn at Saratoga, Lombardo […] More »

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Susanne Craig, a veteran of the Wall Street Journal and Canada’s Globe and Mail who joined the Times business desk in 2010, has been named the paper’s Albany bureau chief. The appointment comes a few weeks after the Times’ longtime Capitol ranker, Danny Hakim, departed for London to cover Europe — where his first subjects, […] More »

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The ornate Red Room on the southeastern corner of the Capitol’s executive chamber has been the scene of many memorable news conferences down through the years. But not since July 2, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the creation of the Moreland panel there. Since that event — held just days after the end of the […] More »

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The new denizen of the Times Union’s Capitol Bureau is already a familiar face across the street at Albany City Hall: Jordan Carleo-Evangelist, who this week takes up his new beat covering state government after five years covering the city; for the past two, he covered Albany County government as well. The 31-year-old Rockland County […] More »

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Here’s news of a Capitol move involving one of our own: Times Union political reporter Jimmy Vielkind has been hired to work for the Albany bureau of Capital New York. The three-year-old website, where Vielkind has published freelance work, announced last week that it had been purchased by Robert Allbritton, an owner of the Washington, […] More »

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Assemblyman and one-man press release machine Kieran Michael Lalor’s latest call goes out to cable giants Verizon, Comcast, DirecTV and Dish Network in an attempt to get them to drop the American feed of “the notoriously anti-American, anti-Semitic and misogynistic” news organization Al Jazeera from their basic cable packages. Lalor is calling for a boycott […] More »

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This may be a bit of inside baseball, but it provides an interesting window into the battles that continually rage under the surface, and which sometimes surface, here in the fishbowl world of the Capitol press corps. Talk 1300′s Fred Dicker, whose 10 a.m. radio broadcast is a staple for many reporters and political observers, […] More »

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In a sure sign that there’s a total comic-book nerd somewhere deep in the Cuomo press office, the administration has issued a release touting the economic impact of the impending filming of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ in locations including Long Island, Brooklyn, Rochester and elsewhere. There are, of course, no superheroes in the pantheon with […] More »

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Assemblyman Jose Rivera, the Bronx Democrat who has shot more video than many people have had hot lunches, has become known around the Capitol for his auteurist tendencies. With little fanfare from either the Capitol press corps or Film Comment, Rivera last month completed some of his most demanding and important work: a triptych about […] More »

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is once again in need of a communications director: Allison Gollust, who came to the post in October just in time for the state to be whacked with a historic hurricane, is leaving to take over as head of communications for CNN Worldwide. In her letter of resignation, Gollust called the past […] More »

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New York political circles have been abuzz over this week’s New York Post column by Fred Dicker, the longtime state editor for the paper. Dicker has not been shy about lauding Cuomo, and members of Cuomo’s administration as well as the governor himself are regular guests on the AM radio show Dicker hosts each day, […] More »

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Demonstrating that Friday-afternoon bad-news dumps aren’t just for politicians, the Westchester County-based Journal News posted a letter from publisher and president Janet Hasson before 6 p.m. announcing that the paper will take down its searchable pistol permit maps for Westchester and Rockland counties. The paper took a blast-furnace of criticism from Second Amendment enthusiasts and […] More »

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s onetime executive deputy communications director has a brand-new bag, or at least a new title: chief of staff. As first reported by the New York Times, Josh Vlasto will handle “communications, politics and policy,” according to an administration source. (Why people won’t go on the record with their name on a basic […] More »

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